Chapter 394 – Prime Minister – Absence of Communication (3)
The awards ceremony has come to an end.
Seo Joo-hwan went down from the podium and approached his family. His mother his, Seo Ae-ra, hugged him with her tear-stained face.
“Son…”
There was a hint of weeping in his voice. It was because I remembered the past while listening to Seo Ju-hwan’s acceptance speech his. Now Seo Joo-hwan has grown up like this and is doing well, but until just a few years ago, Seo Joo-hwan was always a worried and sorry son to her.
Seo Joo-hwan smiled mischievously and hugged his mother.
“Oh, why did my mother shed tears? Were you proud enough to cry that her son was targeted?”
“… Her mom is always proud of her son her, even if he does n’t get the grand prize. So if something is difficult, she should speak up and not hide it.”
“Sure. She just said she would.”
“Is that a promise?”
“Yes. Instead, even my mother doesn’t hide it when she’s having a hard time, and she talks about it. Oh, and since it’s obvious that my father is having a hard time alone, my mother tells me about that too. “
“Puh. OK got it.”
A smile appeared on Seo Ae-ra’s face. Jaepil Seo was clearing his throat from behind.
While he was talking to his parents, Seo Man-shik took off his bowler hat and quietly approached Seo Joo-hwan’s friends and asked them.
“Didn’t you say that Joo-hwan was your college friends? I have seen Sua a few times.”
While the party was taken back by the sudden question, Han Soo-ah, who was at least one-sided, stepped forward.
“Yes, Grandpa. All of them are very close friends with Hwan-i oppa. They are all good people.”
Seo Man-sik nodded his head and looked around at his party.
“Hwan has always been a dark kid since he was little, but now he has become very bright. I asked him why, and he said it must be because he met good friends. Thank you.”
Seo Man-sik lowered his head slightly.
Lee Seok-chan waved his hand her with a rare embarrassed face.
“No, old man. What did we do…….”
“No, that’s right. We really received a lot of help from you.”
“Grandpa, raise your head quickly. It’s burdensome.”
Seo Man-shik lifted her lowered head and looked at the bewildered party.
“There is a saying ‘friends are better than family’. Sometimes, there are times when friends solve things that even family or relatives can’t.”
“…….”
“Please take good care of Hwan in the future.”
“Yes, old man. All right.”
“Well. The old man made it a burden. Just step back.”
Seo Man-shik said goodbye and went back to the place where Seo-ga’s relatives gathered.
Lee Seok-chan looked at her back and said.
“Something like a nobleman.”
“… I know.”
The companions also nodded their heads in agreement.
Meanwhile, Seo Man-sik, who had returned to his seat her, was making an expression that did not show even a hint of the seriousness he had shown earlier. He asked with an excited face.
“Are you really a writer?”
As soon as Seo Man-sik returned to his seat his, he was introduced to a person by Seo Joo-hwan. It was Kim Hyun-young, his favorite writer his all his life.
“Yes, old man. My name is Hyunyoung Kim.”
“Uh hmm. Greatness.”
Seo Man-shik quickly straightened his expression and looked back at Seo Ju-hwan.
Seo Ju-hwan said while hiding his laughter.
“I found out later, too, that the teacher was a judge for this contest.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“Teacher, my grandfather is a huge fan of you. Did I tell you last time?”
“Ho Ho. It was. I heard a lot about the elderly from Joo-hwan. Did you also write in the past? There must be a reason why Joo-hwan writes so well.”
At those words, Seo Man-shik shook her hand with a red face like a girl’s.
“Oops, no. I was a writer without a name… I am grateful that even my grandson is well taken care of by the teacher.”
“Is there anything different that I like? Joo-hwan is only young, but he is a writer who writes better than me.”
“… Is Hwan that good?”
“Sure. It’s sincerity with no empty words.”
Seo Man-sik looked at Seo Ju-hwan with new eyes. I knew it well because I had seen it myself, but seeing that he was recognized like this by a great writer who had chosen him as the best his in his life made that fact even more significant.
Hyunyoung Kim continued.
“I also really enjoyed watching the elders’ work.”
Seo Man-sik’s eyes were filled with doubts.
“… It’s my work what is that?”
“Oh, didn’t you know? Joo-hwan showed it to me…….”
“!”
It was the first time I had heard of it. At the request of my grandson, I showed him the writing I wrote, but did Kim Hyun-young see it?
Seo Ju-hwan said with an embarrassed face.
“Sorry, Grandpa. No matter how much I look at the old man’s dream, it’s a waste to just rot, so I showed it my way.”
“Such insufficient writing…….”
Seo Man-shik felt shame before anger. ‘Old man’s dream’ was a pastime she spent alone to soothe her loneliness after being separated from her wife her 5 years ago. He said that he showed it to a great writer like Kim Hyun-young, and his face seemed to heat up. He said, hiding his trembling hands.
“I’m sorry, writer. The embarrassing writings made my eyes dizzy.”
“Oh, what a shameful article?”
“Yes?”
Kim Hyun-young said with a face as if asking what she was talking about.
“Did I tell you that I definitely enjoyed watching it? If I polished it a little, I could submit it to the contest.”
“… Haha. You save face in front of your grandchildren.”
“Elders, I don’t know anything else, but I don’t save face by writing. ‘The Old Man’s Dream’ was a writing that felt very old. It was a composition that was difficult for young writers who only had writing skills to dare to try.”
“Well, then indeed…… ?”
Seo Man-sik asked with trembling eyes.
Kim Hyun-young smiled gently and nodded her head.
“I only told the truth. If you are okay with it, I would like to recommend you to participate in the contest at a later date.”
“Huh. So far….”
Seo Man-sik’s eyes her shook with waves of emotion. For him, being a writer was a dream he had to give up when he was young. He liked to read and write and wanted to live with ink and pen as friends, but he had to break the pen because he had to support his family.
However, the writer Kim Hyun-young, not someone else, was saying that he enjoyed reading his writing his. She rated it so highly that she even recommended participating in the contest…….
Seo Man-shik tried to clear her throat.
“Uh hmm. As you get older, your tear glands get weaker, so you have more trouble.”
“Grandfather….”
“Thank you, Hwan. And thanks, sir. I will listen carefully.”
Seo Man-shik deeply bowed her waist.
Kim Hyun-young was startled and hurriedly got him up.
“Oh, old man, don’t do this. And now, please stop talking.”
There was an old man trying to somehow express his gratitude to him and a middle-aged woman trying to get him up.
There was someone who approached Seo Joo-hwan, who smiled proudly at these two people. His father His was Jaepil Seo. He patted Seo Joo-hwan on the back and said.
“Thank you, son.”
“Then make me some tteokbokki.”
“Well?”
“It’s been a while since I wanted to eat the snacks my father cooked for me. I think it would be better to go to the store instead of going anywhere…….”
Seo Joo-hwan looked at his father and said. When I went to the snack bar, on this fine day, my father had to sweat in front of the fire.
“Okay, let’s all take them. I’ll give you a snack that tastes better than beef.”
Jaepil Seo said with a big smile.
Seo Joo-hwan shouted toward the place where his party he gathered with a bright face.
“Hey, so… Dinner! Guys! Let’s go eat!”
*
It was later than expected when Seo Ju-hwan and his party arrived at Seogane’s Snack House. It was because reporters approached Seo Ju-hwan, who received the grand prize. As it was the largest literary contest held recently in Korea, reporters were very interested.
[Web novel writer ‘Seo Hwan’ wins the grand prize in Korea’s largest literary contest]
[Writer Seo Joo-hwan, “I will write what I want to write.” I don’t care about genre boundaries]
[Writer Seo Ae-pil, “We all live with a lack of communication”]
Within a few hours, related articles were popping up on portal sites. It was good gossip for a competition that a web novel author treated as a subculture won the grand prize in the largest literature contest in Korea.
– Does the web novel wrapper get the target? I know the level of the competition.
– Author Seohwan wanted to write well, but he made it to the stage.
– Can we go to a reading meeting and push Seohwan’s works instead of Sunmun from now on?
└ ㅇㅋ If you ignore it, you can say that you are a writer for a literary contest.
└ Follow the dog
– There was a rumor that Seo Ae-pil was a student of writer Kim Hyun-young, but wasn’t he pushed from behind? She said this time she was the judge
– Seo Joo-hwan This person is unfair.
└ Is it a push? I knew it
└ What bullshit, you bastard. I just said it was unfair because I was a bitch.
└ This is ㄹㅇ, there is nothing he can’t do, including web novels, pure literature, painting, dancing, face, height, body, and games. I want to be a human baby
└ An acquaintance of mine said he was an alumni of Seo Joo-hwan, but he said he was good at fighting.
└ What? Are you from an abusive perpetrator? I thought it was a Yangachi statue. Well, if you have this much, your personality shouldn’t be good at all
└ Offender X Victim O
└ ? Are you a victim?
└ ㅇㅇ He was from an outcast in the whole school. But at the class reunion, she said that she made the bully shut up.
└ I was told to write a web novel, but I was filming it in real lifehaha
– No fuck, so is this bastard Seo Joo-hwan, Seo-hwan, or Seo Ae-pil? Unify into one.
└ +Soldier type
└ What is that again?
└ Even you who know that this sucks…….
└ Ithin♡
For those who mainly write articles on the Internet, Seo Joo-hwan was a very good target to roll rice cakes. It’s because the more you learn about him, the more interesting things come out.
[Writer Seo Joo-hwan, from a victim of school violence to a national hero]
[Seo Ju-hwan-Seo-hwan-Seo Ae-pil, a web novelist in a national hero… Literary contest subject]
[Who is? Age 23, platform representative, writer Seo Joo-hwan]
– Is it true that reporters write articles after reading the community? My heart is beating
└ ㄹㅇ The title of the article is getting more and more spectacle. National hero
– What does a national hero mean? Catch the killer?
└ My older brother was on vacation last year and caught a murderer. That’s why his nickname is Soldier hyung
└ I was in the same unit, but I was forced to return because of thathaha
[Writer Seo Joo-hwan rejected the casting offer for React Entertainment]
└ What is this?
└ Watch the YouTube video. I was cast while filming a swan fitting
└ My brother writes as a hobby hehe
└ I hope you debut soon. It’s a real luxury actor award with a life of 10 years of virtue. This oppa is different from his aura
└ Suddenly life feels like shit
└ Ah Hyunta…….
*
Returning home, Seo Joo-hwan checked the overdue message.
[Achievement, ‘Literary Contest Grand Prize’…]
[Achievement, ‘Old Man’s Dream’…]
[Achievement of ‘Attention of the literary world in one body’… ]
[Achieving the achievement ‘Fan Cafe Creation’… ]
[Achieving the achievement ‘The Jealous One’… ]
[Achievement, ‘Real-time search word top 10’ achieved… ]
[Achievements…….]
[Achievements… ]
[Up… ]
Notifications and messages that sound like crazy.
He said frowning.
“Lucy, erase everything.”
[All right.]
With Lucy’s answer, the frantic message disappeared.
“How many points did you get today?”
[I’m still climbing, but….]
“Just tell me roughly.”
[A little less than 2 million LPs.]
“Haha…….”
The points I earned for almost a month came in one day. Laughter flowed out of nowhere.
“I thought it was 200,000 at most, but it turned out to be bigger than expected.”
[Because the article did not end at the literary contest.]
The first articles were focused on the literary contest. Even so, the amount of points that came in was not so large as it was not focused on just one, but the eyes were distributed to the winners.
However, at some point, the article’s focus was on one person, ‘Seo Joo-hwan’. It was interesting just to be the subject of a web novel writer’s literary contest, but it was largely thanks to the re-examination of the steps that have been made so far.
“The number of WeTube subscribers and Byulstar followers has also increased tremendously.”
It exceeded 400,000 and 200,000, respectively. In particular, I couldn’t figure out why Byul Star was clicking followers when he didn’t upload anything recently.
‘Well, it’s true that I signed up to earn points.’
It was annoying, so I didn’t manage it separately. At most, I only posted one picture a month ago.
Gying, Gying, Gying!
He first turned off notifications to solve the DM bomb. He could only reply to one or two messages, and he couldn’t even check every single one of these messages.
Seo Joo-hwan was somehow exhausted and laid down on the bed. As I stared blankly at the ceiling, Jeong Ha-yeon’s face came to mind.
‘Ha-yeon had such thoughts.’
Before he came home, at the award ceremony, he had just heard what Jeong Ha-yeon said he would tell later.
